Earlier Friday at RIMAC, Cal Baptist broke open a close game with San Francisco State by scoring 42 points in the second half in a 71-50 win. Senior guard Michael Smith led the Lancers with 21 points.

The Tritons faced Cal Baptist, of the PacWest, in a non-league game in November, and the Lancers played a hot hand, shooting 50 percent from the field for the game and 63 percent in the second half in a 76-63 win.

In that game, UCSD made only five 3-pointers on 15 attempts.

On Friday, the Tritons already had made nine 3s (shooting 43 percent) by halftime as they took a 44-30 lead. Aleks Liipovic, who finished with 21 points for the game, had a tremendous first half, making 5 of 8 3-point shots to score 15 points in the first 20 minutes.